I found a fun way to generate a 2D grid in Oracle SQL and I thought I’d share.

I’ve been looking into a way of publishing Discourse posts as Jekyll entries. I run a gaming community that uses a Discourse forum. In it, there are pages (rules, tutorials etc.) that I’d like to feel more permanent, more easily accessible. I got around this by curating permalinks, but then there are nice-to-haves like mission debriefs - or even a monthly blog that could keep non-members engaged. This is where we run into the forum’s limitations as a platform.

Our forum registration is open to anyone, but we need to be notified of new members so that the Recruitment Officers (ROs) can get in contact with them. Setting registrations to require manual approval is not an option, because not every RO is a moderator.